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...presidents ago, his brother Fidel and he led a ragtag rebel force to improbable victory in early January 1959. Yet, days before this event, it was also Raúl’s turn to preside over the session of the Cuban National Assembly to enact a new social security law??an act that symbolizes what has gone well and badly over the past half century...
...Eight years on, the ape activists are not yet at the breach. But “Animal Law?? is a biannual course at HLS, offering Harvard’s attorneys-to-be a chance to question how the law views animals. Some animal lawyers now hope that the course and others like it could help challenge one of the oldest assumptions of our legal system: the property status of animals...
...Only a handful of law schools offered “animal law?? when Harvard students first petitioned for the course in the late 1990’s; today, more than half of America’s 190 accredited law schools do. The American Bar Association and 13 state bar associations have also added animal law committees...
...Paul Waldau, director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy at Tufts University and instructor of Harvard’s “Animal Law?? course this Spring, told me that animal law??s rise reflects the growing social ferment on animal issues. He predicts that animal law is just the “leading edge of human-animal studies” as the academy—from sociology to religion—catches up with society’s unease with our existing relationship with animals...
...already be persons before the law, it is absurd that animals cannot. Wise believes that until animals achieve legal personhood, even the strongest welfare laws will be undermined by animals’ property status—right now, there is no such thing as “animal rights law?? he notes, only “animal slave...